[blam]

So....TB caused you to be an American?

[decimon]

So....TB caused you to be an American?

Or because words are a lot easier to spell here.

[Myrddin]

My great grandparents were late to the table in forming the USA. My paternal grandmother's family arrived on the Mayflower. My maternal grandparents trace all the way back to Jamestown...Priscilla Mullins and John Alden. The Welsh members of the family arrived in the USA because TB essentially ravaged the family. There were better opportunities in the USA.

[Myrddin]

This is a picture of my great grandparents in 1915. My great grandfather was born in 1842. He emigrated to the US in 1863 and served in the Union army before marrying my great grandmother in 1865 at the end of the war. My grandfather and his twin brother were born in 1887, the last of 19 children.